Activity Overview
Themes, symbols, and motifs come alive when you use a storyboard. In this activity, students will identify a theme of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and support it with evidence from the text.
Poverty
Charlie Bucket lives in extreme poverty. Three examples of textual evidence for this theme are:
- The seven members of the Bucket family live in a two-room house, and all the grandparents sleep in one bed
- Charlie only gets one piece of chocolate a year
- The ultimate reward for Charlie is guaranteed food and shelter for him and his family.
Rules
Three examples of textual evidence for this theme are greedy children being punished for not listening to Willie Wonka’s rules:
- Augustus Gloop drinks from the chocolate river and gets shot through the glass tubes
- Miss Violet Beauregarde chews a piece of a gum and turns into a blueberry
- Veruca Salt demands a squirrel and falls into the garbage chute.
Template and Class Instructions
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Student Instructions
Create a storyboard that identifies themes in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrate instances of each theme and write a short description below each cell.
- Click "Start Assignment".
- Identify the theme(s) from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory you wish to include and replace the "Theme 1" text.
- Create an image for an example that represents this theme.
- Write a description of each of the examples.
Lesson Plan Reference
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identify Theme(s) | All themes are correctly identified and described. | Some themes are correctly identified. | No themes are correctly identified. |
| Examples of Theme(s) | All examples support the identified theme(s). | Most examples fit the identified theme(s). | Most examples do not fit the theme(s). |
| Illustrate Theme | Images clearly show connection with the theme(s). | Some images help to show the theme. | Images do not help in understanding the theme. |
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